Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-09
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Happenings ii the Northwestern
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sOld Zion" the lrst brick Methodist
church built in Iowa, located at Burlington
\ has recently been transformed into q
theater Is /; S. E. s% @ y I: l..
The law granting State certificates of in
corporation went into effect July I, 1885,
and sinoa that time 567 certificates have
been granted to State and 1873 to foreign
tncorporatorsL 4 81.
a. J. Graham, editor Of the Red Oak m
Deepen de,a, was found dead In his Office the
other evening A bottle labeled tincture
Of ac0nite was near. He bought the poison
In the morning, telling the druggist he
wanted 1t Tor o friend In the country for
medicine Temporary insanity was the
cause. ss> a., ss..F III, .irs,.,,,., ), 49,,
The harness and saddlery house of Muel-
Ter l. Nepper, in Sioux City, made an assign
ment the other day. Liabilities $1l, 600;
assets, 500, 600
- AS 1A~s~A AGRICULTURAL CO1UuCtU VI IL D. All
derson, q druggist at Humboldt, was revoked
recently because, during two months alb
senoe IN Chicago, bis store was run by an
unregistered young man. Anderson can
not engage In the drug business in Iowa
again. s.....
The State Supreme Court has decided
that the law recognizing the grand iurv
of the State is constitutional.
I'M, A.
citizen Of Le Mars, but for the past two
years an inmate of the Plymouth County
Poor-house, went to bed few nights ago
with a lighted pipe TIE bed-clothes
caught fire, and being feeble he was unable
to help himself and was burned to death
The German-American Savings Bank at
Burlington has increased it's capital stock
from soc, 900 to 100000.
There are 297 Presbyterian Sunday
schools In the State, with an enrolment of
80, 1877 members
The appointment is announced Of George
W. Oglv1e to be superintendent of the Des
MONIES 4 Northwestern railroad, known as
the Fonda line, and l. F. Martin to be su-
perintendent Of the st. Louis, Dss Moines &
Northern, known as the Boone line.
Miss Martha Fa!rer, white girl, whose
parents move in good society, in Mason
City, eloped few days ago with Thomas
Jefferson, co1ored jockey, The young
woman's family had renowned her.
Farmers near canning factories have real
lied twenty dollars per acre this year for
the sweet corn they raised
ILLINOIS.
The following rates of State tax for ex-
all property in Illinois for the year 1887
have been determined upon: For general
State purposes, three aud nine-tenths mills
on each dollar; for State school purposes.
one and four-tenths mil g on each dollar:
aggregating five and three-tenths mills on
each dollar.
Governor Ross, of New Mexico, has re-
moved the cattle quarantine restrictions
from Illinois, except Cook County:
The Soldiers Home ut Quincy has adj
m1tted 524 inmates, of whom 262 are
natives and 1852 foreigners The foreign
ers are divided as follows: Germany. Ito:
Ireland, 95; England, II, and Scotland, 10.
Two hundred and ffty-six are married or
have living children; 81 are widowers
without c"ildren and 1917 are single. The
trades and professions number SO, and
there are 151 farmers and 1872 laborers.
A number of farmers in Pope County who
have occupied their lands for quarter of
century were ousted few days ago by
ejectment suits brought by nonresident
claimants
An alleged incendiary fire destroyed the
four Ice houses OF the Moline Ice Company
late the other evening: Loss, 81, 500; no
insurance.
Edgar Fitzgerald, fifteen -year-old son
OF j. j. Fitzgerald, of J efferson County, was.
thrown from a horse and almost Instantly
killed the other afternoon.
j. E. Eddy, proprietor of the City Hotel at
Geneseo, shot himself dead few days ago.
He was nearly fifty years old and leaves a
wife and family. Financial troubles were
said to have been the cause of his act
George Wolford, of Georgetown, who had
been shamefully abusing and lnaltreating
his wife, was taken out by a party of neigh
bors the other night, tied to tree and
given thorough whipping: He was then
turned over to the authorities and placed
in jail
William Gaffney and Samuel Carnahan.
of Paris, were killed the other day by the
caving In Of gravel bank.
William Wrlghtman, sixty years OF age,
died from neglect and starvation In Chicago
. few nights ago.
MrA Schnaubelt, mother-in-law of An
Schnaubelt the supposed bomb thrower,
reach ed Chicago the other day. She came
alone from Germany
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